The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

There is going to be some excitement.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Creativity is intelligence having fun

Do good, but don’t get obsess with it. Because had God willed it, the carbon atoms would had got arranged in such a fashion, so to conjure up the universe of a sparkling diamond.